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A reference with a global approach to marine and freshwater fish diversity and fishery resource issues. It brings together information on the decline and restoration of freshwater and marine fishes, providing answers to biodiversity declines as well as to fishery management problems at the subsistence, recreational, and commercial levels.Read more...

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"In "Fish Conservation," Helfman provides a clear analysis of the state of the world's fish fauna and fisheries, and he takes away our excuse of ignorance for not engaging in major efforts to conserve fish abundance and diversity. This book is a benchmark for the status of fishes worldwide and should be within arm's reach of every aquatic and fisheries biologist. In years to come, it will help us answer the question, 'How well are we doing?' in fish conservation."--Peter B. Moyle "Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California, Davis "Read more...